Thursday, November 21, at 7 p.m

Pagès Editors presents its traditional wall calendar, which each year is dedicated to an artist from the Terres de Lleida region, this year with a collection of 13 images of different works that illustrator Ermengol has created throughout his career.

Ermengol celebrates forty years of life and career in Lleida. He claims the artistic elevation of the profession for the sector, straddling art and journalism, and regrets that it is generally conceived as the younger brother of the two. He works from the association of ideas and forms with a special ability to say the most in very little and, above all, he gives strength to the intentionality of the images. A way of cultivating his work that earned him the highest state recognition in the field of graphic humor with the Mingote Award in 1993.

The fourteen images proposed in the calendar cannot sum up his extensive career, but they invite you to enjoy a choral and careful synthesis while we celebrate forty years of criticism, irony and acid satire of those who seek “to provoke a reflection in the reader, that if he comes accompanied by a smile, better”.

Ermengol (Canals, Córdoba-Argentina. 1958). The versatile artist, draftsman, illustrator, puppeteer and graphic humorist arrived in Lleida, where his parents came from, in 1985. He started working for the new newspaper Segre and Diari d’Andorra , and also became a contributor to the national and international press and an illustrator for several publications. At the same time, he continues to create and exhibit from the artistic side. He has ten books published about his work, he has exhibited individually on thirty occasions and twenty collectively around the world. In 2023 he received the Medal of the Lleida Parish for cultural or artistic merit and “Ermengol. 1985-2023” was inaugurated in Concabella, a retrospective of an entire legacy that presented the total artist. As a puppeteer, he adds tens of thousands of handmade jokes.